Why are boxing matches longer than MMA fights in rules not quick KO's?

Question

Can i get a real answer to why not just the obvious its more tiring and if it is that then give me the in depth reason of why they made them shorter do to fatigue. becaue a championship bout is 25 min in UFC and a championship pro fight is 36min 12rounds x 3min= 36 so yeah

Answer 1

In boxing, you can't, clinch, you can't elbow, knee, kick, punch below the waist, throw, etc. You can only punch someone waist up and that's all the fighters has to worry about during the fight. That's why it's easier prevent getting hit and not getting knocked out because all you have to do is worry about your upper body and cover them up.

Answer 2

well there is no real comparison worth doing. They are two different sports.
Like asking why does olympic wrestling have three rounds and olympic fencing have 5 touches to win.

The best answer is boxing has the rounds it has through long developement. They orginally went for dozens of rounds and people watching it were happy to see a couple of hours live.

The main reasons they cut it back was the advent of the new black and white movies to the first movie goers. So they wanted it around an hour or so for better veiwing pleasure.

Later they cut fights back even more, to 12 rounds to fit in with prime time veiwing.

MMA is still in very early developement stages. The biggest problem with it is the grappling. The average guy does not like seeing too much groundwork since he does not understand it. Which is why MMA started standing fighters up and bringing rounds into play. it will keep changing for a while yet.

Answer 3

Most likely, its on account of the way each started and how they've evolved over the years. Professional Boxing was being promoted around 1891, while the UFC was just getting cooked up around 1991; and saw its first official fight here in Denver, in 1993. From the beginning, UFC promoters have always favored submission fighting, which lead them to believe that advertising anything more than 25 min per fight would be unnecessary. Further, the specific number of rounds in a boxing match are usually determined for each fight (as long as they don't exceed 12 rounds).

Answer 4

In the old days, boxing matches were basically winner takes all prize fights. A champ offers to pay a certain amount of money as a reward to anyone who can defeat him. By defeat, it usually meant either by KO or TKO meaning the match is over only if one boxer can no longer continue the fight. Most matches in the old days lasted more than 12 rounds and there were even reports of fights that lasted 100 rounds. While growing up, I was still able to see 25 round matches on TV, but since modern sports rules now allow a boxer to win by points on decision, the very long and numerous round matches were deemed pointless and more likely to cause serious injuries and even death to boxers who were overfatigued and weakened from so many punches, plus the introduction of televised fights made time constraints a big factor in showing a boxing bout. The maximum round per professional fight was reduced to 20 in the 80s then later to 15 and then to the present number of 12 rounds today. MMA matches like the UFC on the other hand, started out as a human c0ckfight with fighters being allowed to use any strikes or attack, except eyegouging and biting. So the chances of a fight reaching 12 rounds is pretty slim, especially since fighters in the early UFC matches had to fight their way from the elimination rounds to the finals all in one night, this lead to some not being able to fight in the finals due to injuries sustained in the semi finals even though they won that stage. But since the implementation of new rules due to safety concerns by the U.S. sports commision and the introduction of the points and ranking system, there was no need to let a fighter fight 3 opponents in one night before reaching the finals, so they now have the present 3 round system in place.

Answer 5

The 3 minute round came about when they started filming fights to play in movie theaters in the States (more in a minute). At that time, a reel of film is about 3 minutes long, so that made for a logical break in the action.

This practice started when boxing became outlawed in the US. Lawmakers figured that the bare-knuckle brawls were adding to the lawlessness of this country and banned promoting fights on US soil. So, fight promoters would take the fights overseas, film them, and show them in the States, which was not illegal. Up to this point, fights lasted as long as both men were still standing. There were no "decisions" or "draws" - only knock outs.

Answer 6

same reason why amateur wrestling matches are only 3 periods..It is too physically exhausting to go much more than that..you get a lot more tired doing mma and wrestling than you do boxing..you see those old school gracie bouts and they basically do nothing after 25 minutes

Answer 7

Sorry for not a in depth but. boxing use so much more muscles in diffenent ways natural it is 3 kicks in a row is exhaulsing if your in shape. i've seen the way some of these guys train conditioning is amazing for some.